motherland

• He little knew the real loyalty of the great mass of Irishmen to their own and to the motherland, and only realized later that his way to England was not through Ireland. —  Drake, Nelson and Napoleon
• Yet he had been brought up in the school of the Federalist party, in which admiration for the literature, policy, and morals of the motherland was taught as a duty; in which every door was thrown open to visitors from England as an act of (p. 093) hospitality due to kinsmen separated merely by the accident of position. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas R. Lounsbury
• "It is often thought that the adhesive that holds migrants together abroad is their attachment to the motherland, which is not easily lost", but it took just eighty years, —  DesiPundit
• "We must build up a Great Wall in our fight against separatism and safeguard the unity of the motherland, and push Tibet's basic stability towards long-term stability," Hu Jintao said. —  BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
• "We must build a sturdy Great Wall against separatism and to protect the unity of the motherland, advancing Tibet from basic stability to ensuring lasting order and tranquillity." —  China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper

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